Sentences with phrase «sound banal»

'» Why does that sound banal from many lips, but startling from this «dilettante» or connoisseur who has dipped into the finer points of Cyril of Alexandria's thought?

The advice may sound banal, says Meir Statman, a finance professor at Santa Clara University, but it works.

So much of what they have to say sounds banal or extraneous compared to the music heard on the soundtrack.

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And the key to all that — what attracts these different factions — is something that, on the surface at least, sounds rather banal: a digital ledger, like the one in your checkbook.

However banal it may sound, those fathers who teach their sons that the skill and the joy they get from participation in various events are much more important than winning, give their children so much more.

It sounds a bit like a Media Ventures score at times - not just in the banal orchestration, but some of the tunes too - but also has the same sense of fun that Hans Zimmer's better action / adventure scores do.

Bound by the most banal relationship to music and by an attempt to avoid all interpretation, elaboration or creativity as such, the performers anticipate the music in order to do the sounds.

Indicative of Hawkinson's technical ingenuity and interest in sensory experiences, his sound machines turn banal objects into unpredictable anthropomorphic arrangements.

The pair, the jazz pianist Jason Moran and his wife Alicia Hall Moran, is attractive and cultured, the sound level is restrained, the conversation is banal.

After all, policy has a way of hiding faces behind numbers and devastation behind banal - sounding terms like «sea - level rise.»

Here, poor strategic choices and writing that veers between banal, overzealous, and imprecise damage the advocate's credibility and weaken otherwise sound substantive arguments.